The AFP reports that the 69-year-old billionaire real estate mogul was unrepentant Tuesday December 8 as criticism rained down from the White House and as far afield as Ottawa, London and Cairo, where Egypt’s official religious body Dar al-Iftaa denounced his “extremist and racist” comments.

Trump stood his ground.

And confronted with the charge that extremists would use Trump’s rhetoric as a recruiting tool, the candidate scoffed.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump’s proposals were unconstitutional and challenged the mogul’s fellow Republicans to denounce him.